Thieves steal Bronze Age artifacts from Spanish museum in four-minute heist

In October 2025, thieves broke into the Louvre museum in Paris in broad daylight, stealing jewellery worth $102m (£75m) before escaping on scooters, in a heist that took about eight minutes.

Thieves have stolen jewellery and artifacts from one of the most important prehistoric gold collections at a museum in the Spanish province of Alicante.

The Treasure of Villena is a unique trove of almost ten kilos of gold, bowls, bottles and bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age.